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Describes sites of significance to the Civil Rights movement, state-by-state across the South
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Townsend Davis is a writer and lawyer living in New York City. His articles has appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and the Charlotte Observer.
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What Charles Blockson did in The Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad (Hippocrene, 1994) in mapping escape routes from slavery, New York City writer and lawyer Davis does for the Civil Rights movement in the South from 1954 to 1968. Wending a path through Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, Davis marks sites of battles against segregation and of bases for building civil equality for black Americans. He sets the scene with maps and sketches of local history and adds human interest with boxed vignettes, photos, and updates of movement participants. An appendix of historic sites and a chronology reinforce both the focus on place and a sense of time in the movement. An engaging popular history and suitable travel companion, this book is recommended for collections for young adults or on civil rights, the contemporary United States, blacks, or the South.?Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
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The civil rights era, alas, is ancient history; for the two generations born since 1960, those remarkable years can only be glimpsed in textbooks and PBS documentaries, stripped of much of the passion, sacrifice, hope, despair, tragedy, and triumph that electrified the evening TV news during the '50s and '60s. No wonder some parents, especially African American parents, and schools are planning pilgrimages to civil rights landmarks for their children. Readers designing such a trip (or curious about what's happened to places in the news three decades ago) will value attorney-writer Davis' enlightening survey of scores of locations in the southern states that played a role in the 1954^-68 civil rights struggle. Davis explores seven states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), moving around in roughly chronological order. Detailed maps and a mix of period and recent photographs bring places and people to visual life; sidebars offer perspective and follow interesting tangents. An effective introduction (or trip down memory lane) for readers reluctant to plunge into more demanding movement histories. Mary Carroll
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Thirty years after the civil rights movement transformed America, this books brings the landscape of this period of American history back to life. The author chronicles the varied places where the formative events of this movement took place. Both a history of the American civil rights struggle and a companion for those travelling to the American South, this guide takes readers to where Martin Luther King Jr grew up; along the path of the Freedom Riders; to Philadelphia in Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered; to the route of the triumphant march from Selma to Montgomery and to many other sites. The account of these historic places also include the words of many people who lived through those times, and contain a description of monuments and museums commemorating the movement and its heroes. The book is based on more than 30,000 miles of field research and more than 100 interviews with veterans of the civil rights movement and features excerpts of speeches and other primary sources. Seller Inventory # 00103805785
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Thirty years after the civil rights movement transformed America, this books brings the landscape of this period of American history back to life. The author chronicles the varied places where the formative events of this movement took place. Both a history of the American civil rights struggle and a companion for those travelling to the American South, this guide takes readers to where Martin Luther King Jr grew up; along the path of the Freedom Riders; to Philadelphia in Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered; to the route of the triumphant march from Selma to Montgomery and to many other sites. The account of these historic places also include the words of many people who lived through those times, and contain a description of monuments and museums commemorating the movement and its heroes. The book is based on more than 30,000 miles of field research and more than 100 interviews with veterans of the civil rights movement and features excerpts of speeches and other primary sources. Seller Inventory # 00073940300
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Thirty years after the civil rights movement transformed America, this books brings the landscape of this period of American history back to life. The author chronicles the varied places where the formative events of this movement took place. Both a history of the American civil rights struggle and a companion for those travelling to the American South, this guide takes readers to where Martin Luther King Jr grew up; along the path of the Freedom Riders; to Philadelphia in Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered; to the route of the triumphant march from Selma to Montgomery and to many other sites. The account of these historic places also include the words of many people who lived through those times, and contain a description of monuments and museums commemorating the movement and its heroes. The book is based on more than 30,000 miles of field research and more than 100 interviews with veterans of the civil rights movement and features excerpts of speeches and other primary sources. Seller Inventory # CIN0393045927G
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